The Roaring Heads Podcast

This week we are talking to Mark Turner who has just finished a stint as Triathlon Scotland high performance coach. In this podcast we wanted to open a non judgmental discussion about the nature of high performance sports programs and what can be done to remove the toxic elements of doubt and fear.  All sports programs, even down to the grassroots level, suffer from some degree of politics and con...

This week we have a discussion with Dr Paris Williams. We discuss the transition that took Paris from world champion hang gliding athlete, to the depths of an intense personal inner transformation and awakening that led him on a journey of exploration of the human condition. Paris attained degrees in ecology and psychology, specializing in humanistic, existential, transpersonal, somatic and ecolog...

This week we have an interesting interview by Grant Giles with Shawn Smith, athlete manager and chief editor at Triathlon news website www.trizone.com.au. In this podcast Shawn speaks openly about athlete management and shares the benefit of his experience. We speak to the do's and dont's of building and maintaining athlete/sponsor relationships, and the importance of an effective cohere...

Your second chance is being served to you on a plate. What are you going to do, survive or thrive? Athletes often tend to miss the importance of moments that contain opportunity. Often in hindsight we identify moments that provided key opportunity’s that we missed, because we were too busy sitting in judgement and making ourselves victims of the situation. This moment is calling for a key decision...

The viral shift. It’s not about answers, it’s all about the questions! As a species we have spent an inordinate amount of time and effort trying to make stable that which is by nature unstable. Our main lesson here is that nothing in physical life is stable, even reality. Reality is in fact as solid as tissue paper. I’d like a dollar for every time I have heard the words, surreal, weird, eery, str...

Challenging times we are going through no doubt. Often challenge and the doubts like we are facing right now tend to expose our core wounds, often leaving us feeling raw, exposed and vulnerable. For the athletes right now, these are uncertain times, athletes like to control their external world but right now that is not possible. What we are doing in this podcast is exploring what you can control...

This weeks Roaring Heads Podcast is a guest interview with Craig Alexander, 5 times World Triathlon Champion. From the outside one would say that Craig is a tough nut. No one excels in Kona and records a Palmarès of such longevity without lashings of mental fortitude and toughness, but what does that actually mean? In this podcast we explore what that has meant for Craig. There are always clues le...

Isn’t it strange how we are able to train so consistently and so confidently in the day to day training environment, but as we draw into race week the jitters begin. Some of that shakiness is a requirement, a shakiness that alerts us to the fact that we are about to go into battle and that we need all our reserves to be awakened. However once that shakiness moves into the realm of doubt, we move i...

In this episode Gilesy explores the age old athlete question, how do I know when I’m too fatigued to train and when I’m just slacking? Athletes have a very hard time coming to terms with fatigue, often we will override our own intuition to push on into the twilight zone. In this episode we explore the effect of rumination on the decision   making process on whether to train or not, the damned if y...

In this episode we have Kira Sutherland, an Australian Naturopath and Sports Nutritionist with more than 20 years in clinical practice. Kira's focus in performance nutrition led her to be the first Naturopath in Australia to undertake the International Olympic Committees diploma in sports nutrition. She is the 2019 winner of the BioCeuticals Integrative Medicine Award for Excellence in practi...

In this episode Grant explores the epidemic of anxiety. I pulled the trigger on this particular podcast due to the fact that so many have contacted about the subject of anxiety. Anxiety steals the peace, tranquility and efficacy of living life as a being. We suffer so at the hands of anxiety because we misidentify ourselves as objects. Unconsciously we feed our anxiety the fuel it requires, which...

This week I am discussing one of my favorite subjects when it comes to the borders of athletic endeavor, "relaxing into pain". In this episode I am covering some of the key aspects around pain, discomfort and our relationship to managing it, including: Our relationship to pain. Pain is a tag we learnt from our parents.  Our judgment of pain. Pain, is it felt or thought? The practice of u...

Today Gilesy discusses the immense power in the seemingly opposing recipe of giving up in Success!  It’s not about what you gain, it’s about what you give up. What are you willing to give up for your dreams? Your late nights, your social butterfly ways, your high GI sugar fixes, your self judgment, your doubts, your fears, your Friday afternoon beers?  Ultimately success is not measured by what yo...

Today Gilesy is discussing a few of the pillars of becoming self aware. The unconscious traps we tend to fall into that sever our performance cord and separate us from our own internal potential.  Most of them experienced by Gilesy and explored out to hopefully add something to your own exploration that may help you short cut and negotiate some of the same holes that he fell into.  The judgment sy...

On today’s Roaring Heads Podcast we have triathlon coach Mark Turner. Mark has run a very successful triathlon business on the Gold Coast and Brisbane.  Mark is an extremely passionate and thoughtful human. He made the big jump to move his Family to Scotland to take over the role of head coach of Triathlon Scotland. In this podcast we discuss the in and outs of coaching and the mental game that un...

Today we talk to 2016 World 70.3 Triathlon Champion Tim Reed.  Tim is most likely Australia's best 70.3 athlete and has made serious inroads into the Ironman distance, having won Ironman Australia and setting the run course record, and in the same year he won the Ironman 70.3 World Championship on the Sunshine Coast. Tim speaks about that banner year in 2016 and the mental adjustment taken wh...

He has won so many races I can’t count them. Often at speeds pro athletes would be proud of. Hayden has podiumed at World championships, won Ironman and 70.3 categories over many years. He has finished top 10 overall in several Ironmans including an 8:45 at Ironman New Zealand last year, from an age group start and has often been the first age grouper home. His palmarés is so long I wouldn’t have...

What is possible when we truly accept the outside world and ourselves as we are? What is possible if we drop all the judgement? All the names and shames that cloud our athletic trust.  We have to measure our goal against what the motivation is, and if the motivation is to simply add something to ourselves in terms of ego or reputation, then that motivation won’t be strong enough and the required f...